The final stand(into the mirage)

Chapter two

“Keep talking, I am all ears. This is actually scarier than I thought it was.” Lily said to Dylan.

“The mind only allows things that are a part of you to be seen in your dreams and no matter how hard you try running away from me, I will keep reaching out to you until you are willing to accept your true responsibility.” The voice said to me.

“Whatsoever this voice might be, it must really be someone ancient because of the way he replies to you.” Lily said to Dylan.

“Yeah that came into my thoughts too after some series of replies he gave to me.” Dylan said to Lily.

“Why do you keep appearing in my dream and you seem to have a fixed period of time when you appear to me. What issue do you have with me? You have been speaking to me ever since I was ten years old and you are yet to show your face to me. All I see is darkness and then a voice that speaks to me telling me to accept who I really am, this is just how crazy it sounds.” That was my reply to the voice I heard in my dream.

“Why wouldn’t you just show your face to me? Show your face to me and then I would have more idea of what you are talking about. You are just stressing me and this really needs to stop.” I kept trying to make him show me who he really was.

“It is almost time for me to reveal myself to you but by then you should be ready to accept who you truly are. It is a matter of time before you become who you truly are.” And then he said this to me and I didn’t just know what to say again.

“I will never join whatever charade you are talking and I never want to see you in my dream.” That was my final reply to the voice.

“And then what happened next?” Lily asked Dylan.

“After that statement, I felt a really sharp pain in my chest and it was just as if my heart was being pulled out of my body and that was when I jumped out of bed.” Dylan replied to Lily.

“I don’t know whatever thing that is wrong with you but it is obviously something supernatural, obviously not normal at all. Let me start by asking you, when do you encounter this weird voice in your dream?” Lily asked Dylan.

“Towards the end of every month, the voice always appears to me in my dream and I really don’t know what to do. It is really taking a toll on me and it is quite noticeable, my mum seems to notice my mood swing each time I have this dreams.” He replied to Lily.

“Oh yeah I also noticed that he appears to me during the full moon, I wake up in the middle of the night and I notice that it’s a full moon. I don’t know what’s wrong with me but it’s definitely not normal.” He added as he kept on running his finger through his thick brown curly hair.

“I know a gypsy that I once met and I think she might have a clue of what is wrong with you, all you need to do now is to provide a date and then we could go see her.” Lily proposed an idea to Dylan.

“You know fully well that I don’t believe in this gypsy s**t, stuff like that are usually fake and they say all type of trash just to get some few bucks from us.” Dylan said to her as he laid down flat on his bed staring at the ceiling while holding his phone to the ear.

He turned to the other side of his bed and it was about 5 am in the morning.

“Besides Lily, I am yet to ask why you called me as early as this in the morning. Shouldn’t you be on your bed sleeping or something?” Dylan said to Lily.

“I definitely couldn’t sleep after I woke up in the middle of the night and you are the first person that came across my mind. I tried to call you just to see if you were awake and I guess it’s my lucky day, you didn’t take my calls but you replied my text messages.” Lily replied to him.

“Do you have a better alternative apart from we trying out the idea of a gypsy?” Lily asked Dylan.

“I really have no idea of what to do at the moment and I would have just bashed off the idea of it was the first time of me encountering something like this but this have been happening over and over again. And I forgot to tell you but I think I grew some few feet taller and a lot hairier within some hours, I know this might sound crazy but I am not bluffing.” He said to Lily.

“You know what? I will just call you later in the day.” Lily replied to him as she hung up on him.

“Hmmm, that is weird of her to hang up on without any reason but that’s cool. I will just have to wait for her call later in the day, she always comes up with a solution to my problem ever since we were kids and that is why I will never stop telling her things that happen to me. But come to think of it, what is really wrong with me? I know I am 18 but these are clearly not the signs of puberty that the teacher taught us in school. Something is wrong somewhere and I really need to get to the bottom of it because the allowance mum gives to me won’t be enough for me to keep buying new bedsheets and buying some few things for myself.” Dylan said to himself as he kept staring at the ceiling of his room.

“Did he finally speak with the voice in his dream?” A deep voice from the dark asked Lily as she hung up on Dylan.

“Yes father.” Lily replied to him in a very low tune.

“I think you have known him for more than eight years now and you have been doing quite a good job when it comes to the mission I assigned to you, I think he is the chosen one and I want you to continue to keep an eyes on him. Don’t you forget that you are doing this for your clan and no one else. I noticed that you quickly hung up the call on him the moment you felt my presence, I hope you are not catching any sort of feelings for him because that would spoil the mission that we have assigned to you.” He said to his daughter as he finally stepped out of the dark, to show his face to his daughter.

His skin was pale white but it had this incredible amount of freshness to it, his eye pupils were as red as well brewed fruit wine and he had his sharp fangs popping out of his mouth. He was putting on a black suit on and he had this elegant look to his face too.

“Father! Don’t tell me that you have taken the life of an innocent again because I can see that your fangs are all popped out which clearly signifies that you must have taken the life of a human before you got here.” Lily said to her father as she dropped her phone on the floor.

Lily stayed alone in a single apartment and she attended same school with Dylan, there was so many things that Dylan didn’t know about lily including the fact that her father was alive.

Lily told Dylan that was an orphan that was enjoying the vast wealth that her parents had left behind for her. She also told him that a firm was responsible for her well being and they would be in charge of her until she finally turns 18, then she could inherit the health of her father. A well structured lie to cover up for her father and Dylan had no choice but to fall for it.

“I had taken the life of a living thing on my way here but it was clearly not a human, it was just a sheep that I saw on my way here and I had to refill. You know we can’t go that far without the taste of blood my dear.” He replied to his daughter as he stretched his hands to pat her on her cheek.

“You are forgetting that you are not a human and this life you are living is really not meant for you, you are on a mission to get a hold of that good for nothing half vampire and werewolf boy. It is quite a pity that he doesn’t know who he really is but he will eventually find out soon enough and when he does, he would join us to fight against the werewolves. I know he is an abomination of nature that happened because of the clumsiness of the alpha of the wolf clan and a female vampire from our clan, that abomination that they call love is responsible for this boy and we would need to get him on our side to be able to put an end to the wolves once and for all. Besides you know the spell that was casted on us forbids us from taking in the blood of humans no matter how attractive or irresistible their blood could smell. The moment we taste the blood of a human, we lose the power to stay under sun light and the ring on our index finger gets broken, I know some stray vampires are willing to take the risk but I will clearly not do something this stupid because I would want to see you every time of the day. There have been reports of some weird killings around and I think those werewolves are responsible for it, I want you to make him hate his clan to the extent that he would have no choice but to join forces with us so that we could sweep his clan off the surface of the death. Don’t allow your emotions get a hold of you because this is a mission that determine the existence of the vampires, remember that you are about a 300 years old too and that spell was casted on you to make you take your current look so as to facilitate the mission and you are doing quite an excellent job for the past eight years I must say.” Hansel said to his daughter.

“I am well aware of that father and I won’t let our clan down, I will do anything possible to get him on our side and it is slowly falling into place.” Lily replied to her father.